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SALON'S TV PICKS FOR
THURSDAY, FEB. 18, 1999
BY JOYCE MILLMAN

S P E C I A L S

ABC and Fox go head to head with the world's crappiest sweeps programming. We begin with a very special car-chase-and-shootout edition of World's Wildest Police Videos (8 p.m., Fox), followed by the all-new World's Most Shocking Medical Videos (9 p.m., Fox), featuring "up-close, uncensored, unbelievable" footage of (among other things) an operation to separate twins conjoined at the head and medicinal maggots devouring burned human flesh. Now that I have your attention, let's turn to World's Deadliest Storms (8 p.m., ABC), which is pretty self-explanatory and not at all a cheap stunt to hype the conclusion of Stephen King's 'Storm of the Century' (9 p.m., ABC).

S E R I E S

On Friends (8 p.m., NBC), Monica and Chandler have a disagreement over the M-word, and Joey's new girlfriend (Soleil Moon Frye, who used to be Punky Brewster) is small but tough. George Clooney bows out of ER (10 p.m., NBC) tonight, but just how Dr. Ross leaves County General is a closely guarded secret. When last week's episode ended, Ross and Jeannie Boulet had just skidded into a car crash while racing to help victims of a school bus accident. On Celebrity Deathmatch (10 p.m., MTV), it's a three-way bout between Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow.

S P O R T S

Hockey:
Canadiens at Flyers (7:30 p.m., ESPN2)

T A L K

Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Andy Garcia, Andre Braugher, Shania Twain
David Letterman (CBS) Magic Johnson, Jewel
Jay Leno (NBC) Anthony Edwards, Blondie
Charlie Rose (PBS) Andrew and Patrick Cockburn
Politically Incorrect (ABC) Ben Savage, Monica Crowley
Conan O'Brien (NBC) Andy Garcia
SALON | Feb. 18, 1999

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